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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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